How to keep your swing healthy while you grow old

Golf guidance is always developing, but the best advice lies in the test of time. In eternal advice, we are emphasizing some of the biggest tips that teachers and players have shared on the pages of Golf magazine. Today we return to our July 1981 issue where Johnny Miller shared how he changed his swing to keep his body healthy while aging. For unlimited access to the Digital Archive of the full Golf magazine, join Indoor tODAY; You will enjoy $ 140 value for only $ 39.99/year.

Golf is a game that can be played for a life – but that doesn’t mean you will always be able to swing the same way. As we grow old, our bodies change and these changes can make certain movements from our youth almost impossible.

This is a truth that each golf player faces at one point or another. Even if you are a striker now, after reaching retirement age, you will not be able Tap 120 MPH of the ball speed. But that doesn’t mean you can’t succeed in the course while you grow old. You just have to make the necessary swinging adjustments.

Back in 1981, formerly the US Open winner Johnny Miller united Golf And shared some of his best tips to keep his swing – and the body – healthy while aging. Follow them, and your golden years can become your prime minister.

Johnny Miller’s keys to keep your swing healthy

There are many conversations about my “new” golf swing, and how well I played with it. In fact, it is not “new” in the strict sense of the word. There is nothing revolutionary about it. However, it is new to me because it is a departure from the way I shake the club in the past.

Most of the changes in my swing have come as a result of changes in my physique. When I was younger I was extremely flexible and my legs were the strongest part of my body. But while I am old, I have lost some importance (as almost everyone does) and I have become stronger from the waist. I think my fall was, to some extent, the result of trying to perform my “old” swinging with my new “body”.

“New” shaking is the product of many thoughts and evidence and mistakes. And in the same way it has helped me, it can help many amateur players who are not as supple as they once would or they would like to be. Here’s how it works.

Leakage

The first change I made was in my receipt. Until recently, I experimented with Fanning the Club Open while getting, as Gary Player does. And before that, in my early tournaments, I used an early ankle set. This helped me create a straight back plane, from which, using my perfection, I could put the shaft on the landing plane starting from below. Finally, I decided to start in one piece, a coordinated movement of weapons, shoulders, hands and clubs while holding the club square. This method is simpler and best for players of all levels.

slope

The changes in my back were actually the corrections of the mistakes I had developed. When I was younger, one of my best return keys was to feel like I was behind the ball on my back. With the degree of flexibility I had then, I could get behind the ball while still making a good, full turn. But as I gained weight and strength in my upper body and lost some importance, this key led to a “fake” turn of the back. In fact, I didn’t go back at all. I just moved and the upper body sideways to the right and type I raised my arms to the top. This action took the club to the top, but there were no upper body muscle windings. This is a fault of many players’ players who are rigid or heavy.

I corrected the mistake working to stay more over the ball as I came back during my back. The feeling of this reminds me of that old teaching saw, “You feel like turning into a barrel during your back.” The result has been a genuine spine twist, with an improved use of large and strong muscles of my upper body, instead of a false twist. If you have developed a false turn as a result of trying to get after the ball, try this: place yourself after the ball to the address, so that your head is slightly to the right of the ball, then the key to a full body twist from there.

drop

One of my favorite sitting keys during my new days was “Stay behind him and hit him”. I was quite flexible then to make it effectively. But this key became less and less effective in time, and I began to push long shots off the line. Pushing was the goal that really sparked my fall, though I was not hitting every blow in that way. I hit most of my shots well, but in one or two main holes in a round, I would get nervous, hit the push and end with a double noise. This led to many 73 and 74.

I stuck in resolving this fault when playing at the Silverado course in Napa, California, near my home, about two years ago. I wanted to see how far I could hit the ball to the right by moving forward instead of staying back while landing. I hit a shot to move tightly to my left side, and the ball went about 15 yards right where I was aiming. I thought, “Gee, I’m sure I can do better than that.” I hit another blow and tried more to move on my left side. The ball went only about 20 yards right where I was aiming. From that experience, I learned that in trying to stay behind the ball, I was hanging back on my right side. As a result, I could not cross the ball with my arms. This was causing the impetus.

I also discovered that as long as I made a strong movement back to the falling ball, I could not push the blow too far to the right, and that as long as I did not exaggerate the movement, the ball would not go to the right. As it turned out, the solution was the opposite of what I first thought it was. This action has made my swing look a little different. Since it is more oriented to the upper body, my right side comes through the ball higher than it was. But this is a feature that I now share with many other excellent swingers. And with this kind of shaking, my head does not fall as it once was. In general, it is a simpler, more repetitive landing and, therefore, more reliable.

Regardless of his method, every good golf player has a good weight change. Practice to make a strong movement on your left side to start landing and you will hit narrower and longer shots.

Then.

I have always thought that the continuation was the result of the shake that came before him. And as you can see here, my follow -up reflects the changes I have made in my swinging. As a result of solid movement on my left side at the beginning of landing, my weight is completely moved to my left foot. In fact, this is one of my next new keys, feeling like I have moved all my weight over the little foot of my left foot at the bottom. Previously, when I was hanging back, I would end up with my scattered weight between my right foot and my left heel. Now my weight is moved to the left side so completely that when you follow the shots with 4- iron through the wedge, I think I can raise my right foot from the ground.

The other difference in my continuation is that I don’t have as much bending on my back as it once was. As you grow old, the ending in that large “opposite C” position becomes increasingly difficult. Coming through the ball with the top right side, and the shaking more with the upper body instead of the feet, results in a narrower back.

Use these keys as checkpoints for your tracking. By encouraging the feeling of accurate completion, you will make it easier to perform the correct movements that precede it.